Albeacho
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Humans are not born with a genetically encoded morality. It is a produced by the social and the young are enculturated into the societal customs. And how did societies got their customs, cultures? They had to invent them. So each societies is like an living organism and so subject to process of selection. Those societies which adopt cultures which favor their survival will prosper and those that adopt that adopt cultures that do not favor their survival will not prosper. So there are certain moral values that are shared by most societies because the societies that did not hold them got extinct rather quickly.
All that induces me to believe that moral values should not be invented but only discovered because they are objective, namely truths that should be universally considered unquestionable and non-negotiable. By believing that an objective morality exists in the human being and that it should possess a solid logical rationale it is necessary that it goes "beyond self”. It must appeal to an Entity who introduced these moral laws in man; in a nutshell, we are all equal. Instead, those who insist that there is something "always right or always wrong," are simply irrational. In this respect, I’d quote a noted Italian philosopher and laicist, Norberto Bobbio, who said:” The rational morality that we laicists propose is the only one we have, but in reality it is unreasonable”.
Being objective is not necessarily to be oppressive, arrogant or authoritarian. My point is that we should bear in mind that there are many traditions that affirm how trans-cultural universal moral conducts are required by the nature itself of the human being: they express the way by which an individual enters into a creative and harmonious order that goes beyond him and gives meaning to his life.
All that induces me to believe that moral values should not be invented but only discovered because they are objective, namely truths that should be universally considered unquestionable and non-negotiable. By believing that an objective morality exists in the human being and that it should possess a solid logical rationale it is necessary that it goes "beyond self”. It must appeal to an Entity who introduced these moral laws in man; in a nutshell, we are all equal. Instead, those who insist that there is something "always right or always wrong," are simply irrational. In this respect, I’d quote a noted Italian philosopher and laicist, Norberto Bobbio, who said:” The rational morality that we laicists propose is the only one we have, but in reality it is unreasonable”.
Being objective is not necessarily to be oppressive, arrogant or authoritarian. My point is that we should bear in mind that there are many traditions that affirm how trans-cultural universal moral conducts are required by the nature itself of the human being: they express the way by which an individual enters into a creative and harmonious order that goes beyond him and gives meaning to his life.
